Gurpinder Lalli

Gurpinder is a Senior Lecturer in Education and Inclusion Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. He is an active researcher in the sociology of education, policy and food studies; and the author of Schools, Food and Social Learning published by Routledge in 2019. Research Interests: School food, pedagogy, surveillance studies, policy, health education. Selected Publications: Lalli, G. (2019) Schools, Food and Social Learning. Abingdon: Routledge. Lalli, G. (2019) 'School mealtime and social learning in England', Cambridge Journal of Education, 50 (1), pp.57-75, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2019.1630367 Lalli, G. (2017) 'Commensality and the ‘School Restaurant'’, Educational Futures, 8 (2), pp.69-88.

Free School Meals (FSM) and extending forms of Capital: A small scale case study in one Academy school.

This paper aims to investigate the notion of ‘Culinary Capital’ in line with Free School Meal (FSM) participation in one Academy school. Evidence from the past twenty years on pupil attainment and school performance has become central to understanding achievement and this has involved assessing socio-economic status; one of these…

An investigation into Commensality in the ‘School Restaurant’

This article questions whether we need to reconsider school meals as social events, communal gatherings and an educative space rather than just as a space to provide pupils with health and nutrition. Therefore, this article does not consider the nutritional elements of the school meal but commensality and the notion…